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Senior QA EngineerGuideSpark

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Location: Menlo Park, CA Type: Full Time Min. Experience: Mid Level
Guidespark, recently Named #6 Best Place To Work in the Bay Area, is a fast growing, well-funded startup that is revolutionizing how employers engage, communicate and train their employees. GuideSpark leverages the latest video and mobile technologies with unique content expertise to disrupt the $67B communications and training market. In a very short time we have built a tremendous roster of A-List clients from Fortune 1000 companies (e.g., Adobe) to fast growing startups (e.g., SurveyMonkey). Our fast-paced, entrepreneurial, culture is driving triple digit growth and we?re looking for great people to join our team.

Description:

GuideSpark is looking for a talented and motivated Quality Assurance Engineer to help us build the platform that will change the way companies communicate with employees. We are developing on Rails 4 using the latest techniques for continual integration and test automation. Our ideal candidate will have experience testing Web application and video platforms and will have a passion for quality, analytics and automation. Are you ready to help us continue to achieve phenomenal results by becoming part of our software development team?

Responsibilities:

Perform in-depth product testing across multiple browsers, platforms and environments
Play a key role in our Agile development process planning each sprint and verifying user stories for completeness and overall quality
Develop test plans, test cases and test data as part of a comprehensive strategy to improve and maintain product quality
Significantly expand our testing framework, tools and automation strategies to improve product quality and code coverage
Triage incoming customer issues working closely with product management customer success to identify and resolve each issue
Clearly define product bugs and issues using our Agile development tool and validate fixes for all issues in each sprint
Contribute to a motivated and creative team atmosphere where individuals work hard to exceed expectations and support other team members striving to do the same
Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
2-3 years software testing experience of MVC-based Web applications
Expertise with testing methodologies, tools, automation and approaches
Solid understanding of Agile development processes
Experience developing test plans, test cases and test data
Strong familiarity with cross browser issues and strategies for cross browser testing across multiple operating systems and platforms
Familiarity with databases, SQL and data test and data validation strategies
Experience automating with Ruby on Rails tools such as RSpec and using open source tools such as Selenium is a plus
Familiarity with Web-based video players and formats also a plus